Tag: benefits
Capitalism offering only poverty and war to working class and middle...
FALLING incomes will mean the biggest drop in living standards for middle-income families since the 1970s, when the Yom Kippur war resulted in the...
‘A scar on the conscience of Britain’
THE fact that 40 per cent of disabled children are living in poverty is ‘a scar on the conscience of Britain’, says Unite, the...
Sustained Campaign Of Industrial Action! – In 67 Unis To Start...
A SUSTAINED campaign of industrial action by members of the University and College Union (UCU) in 67 of the UK’s best-known universities will start...
This is how NATO is defending civilians in Libya
ON Saturday, the Red Cross visited Sirte, which has been under intense bombardment and shelling from NATO planes and ships, and by NATO’s ground...
Miliband will do everything that is necessary to defend capitalism
YESTERDAY the main trade union leaders were full of praise for Miliband’s conference speech. This was no doubt an expression of relief that he...
Miliband Won’t Reverse Tory Policies!
IN THE middle of the greatest ever capitalist crisis, Labour leader Miliband, while the ruling class is attacking and robbing the working class...
COALITION ‘TAKING A CHAINSAW TO OUR PUBLIC SERVICES’ – Prentis...
MOVING the Public Services composite motion at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday, Unison General Secretary, Dave Prentis said: ‘Conference, today we...
The Imf Issues Warning To The UK And Europe
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecast for Britain for the third time in nine months and warned George Osborne that...
Miliband launches attack on unions and the Labour Party
LABOUR leader Miliband is planning to allow non-Labour Party members to be registered as supporters, and to vote in leadership elections, in the affiliated...
US postal workers and teachers under attack
POSTAL workers and teachers are coming under attack as a result of the drive to cut federal and state spending in the crisis-hit United...
Unemployment and inflation surges as Cameron threatens immigrants’ benefits
THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....
Inflation carries on cutting wages, pensions and benefits
THE Office of National Statistics has given the figures on inflation rates for last month which confirm that British capitalism faces total economic collapse,...
Joint strike action agreed – at the TUC Congress
THE TUC Congress yesterday instructed the TUC General Council to support and coordinate joint strike action against attacks on jobs, pensions, pay and public...
US ‘job creation’ will come from Medicaid and Medicare cuts
LAST Thursday night US President Barak Obama addressed a joint session of the US Congress where he outlined his new initiative that would, he...
Youth bear brunt of economic collapse – says Canadian Labour Congress...
THE CLC (Canadian Labour Congress) in Canada have produced a report exposing the fact that youth are bearing the brunt of the mass sackings,...
Banking Crisis Heading For The Precipice!
THE INABILITY of the US economy to recover from its jobs slump, alongside the colossal indebtedness of the EU banks – German, Italian, French...
HOUSING CRISIS! Middle classes will be on the streets
HOMELESSNESS is spreading to the middle class, homelessness charity Crisis is warning, as mass sackings of public sector workers along with the government’s onslaught...
World economy on brink of collapse
THE capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step over the brink into the abyss of collapse with the news that the euro debt...
South African textile workers fight poverty and exploitation
A march of 3,000 clothing workers organised by the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) brought the town of Newcastle to a...
From Low Wage To No Wage Economy – Tories Plan Chain...
CRISPIN Blunt, the justice minister, announced yesterday that instructions were being issued to the courts to the effect that unemployed offenders sentenced to the...
Tuc Must Act Over Cameron’s War!
ON MONDAY the bourgeois press proclaimed the rag-bag of mercenaries and brigands who make up the so-called ‘rebels’ had crushed the forces loyal to...
US unions campaign for jobs
‘ACROSS the US, at town halls, fundraisers, and forums in over 150 congressional districts, jobless Americans are uniting with workers, students, and other citizens...
Tories to make hundreds of thousands homeless – only socialism can...
THE policy of the Tory-led coalition to slash housing benefit for the unemployed and low income families will result in hundreds of thousands being...
Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and...
RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...
MEDICARE, MEDICAID, SOCIAL SECURITY MUST BE DEFENDED! – says SEIU...
Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement after both Republicans and Democrats last Thursday announced their...
Crisis splitting Tories, police chiefs, and military
THE Tory leadership publicly lambasted what it termed the police chiefs’ ‘wrong tactics’ for dealing with the youth uprising, during the special sitting of...
Only one solution to the death agony of capitalism: bury...
EVEN sections of the bourgeois media, and the bourgeoisie that it represents, were yesterday able to describe the appearance of the current world...
TUC CONGRESS 2011 CALL FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION ON PENSIONS –but does...
The TUC Congress next month is meeting at an historic juncture of worldwide economic and political crisis. Millions of workers are having their wages frozen...
US Workers Take Action
JUST one day before Democrats and Republicans were set to forge a trillion dollar debt deal that would impose savage cuts on the American...
Since bankrupt capitalism offers workers a ‘bleak old age’– get rid...
LORD McFall, who has been examining private sector pension schemes, has concluded in his Workplace Retirement Income Commission review, that workers on private pensions...
Hague Must Resign Over Libyan Debacle
THE latest NATO war crime, the bombing of the Libyan TV station, killing three technicians, was a repeat of a similar war crime,...
Stop the great pensions robbery!
2.5 million public service employees are being told how much extra the coalition government intends to force them to pay in pension contributions from...
Uaw Begins Contract Talks With ‘Big Three’
THE UAW auto workers union is beginning its 2011 contract talks with GM, Ford and Chrysler. For the employers the ...
5.5 million households live in ‘fuel poverty’
THE number of UK households in fuel poverty rose by one million in 2009 to 5.5 million. The figures from the Department of Energy...
BA pensioners fury at Ascot meeting
TWO THOUSAND furious Airways Pension Scheme (APS) members attended meetings at Ascot Racecourse on Monday, where they tore into the BA-appointed trustees who have...
Cuts Will Make 40,000 Families Homeless
Labour is to put down an urgent question in Parliament this morning, after it emerged that Prime Minister Cameron was warned six months ago...
US backs Israeli threat to second Freedom Flotilla
ORGANISERS of the second Freedom Flotilla say that an administrative complaint has been filed against the US Boat to Gaza, claiming that the vessel...
‘LET’S GO FORWARD TO THE GENERAL STRIKE!’ – ATUA National Secretary...
‘This is the period of the world revolution,’ All Trades Union Alliance National Secretary Dave Wiltshire told 150 delegates at the News Line-ATUA...
‘WORKERS RISING UP!’ – ATUA National Secretary tells conference
‘WE NEED a general strike to bring the government down and go forward to a workers government and socialism.’ This is what All Trades Union...
GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING DOWN THE COALITION – build the revolutionary...
Resolution from yesterday’s News Line-All Trades Union Alliance Conference THIS News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference gives its complete support to the June 30th pensions...
Pensions Battle Ahead!
THE NUT and ATL teachers unions announced overwhelming votes for strike action yesterday, against the coalition government’s massive attacks on their pensions. In the...
Sri Lankan Workers Rising Up Against The Rajapakse Regime
THE Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) yesterday said that a decision has been made to continue their current trade union action in whatever...
Tata To Sack 1500
Yesterday’s announcement of 1,500 job cuts by Tata Steel in mills in Scunthorpe, Teesside and Hartlepool, is a ‘devastating blow’, the GMB union said. Keith...
PLANS TO PUNISH JOBLESS! – by Policy Exchange think-tank
Civil servants union PCS yesterday condemned the latest attack on the unemployed by the Cameron-favoured right-wing Policy Exchange think-tank. Following its latest study, the Policy...
‘HARDEST HIT’ demands stop benefit cuts for disabled people
‘Cuts Kill – Kill the Cuts!’ shouted an over 5,000-strong march of disabled people, their carers and friends as they approached parliament on Wednesday. The...